A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination

Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/25/hative-hawaiian-scholarship-program-lawsuit

 

Meet the men and their keiki of Ke Kai O Kahiki

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2TvOS1gBgU

 

US conservatives sue to dismantle Native Hawaiian healthcare scholarships

Other Hawaiian educational initiatives have been targeted through legal challenges aimed at diversity programs. The Kamehameha Schools, a private school system established with the inheritance of Hawaiian princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, was specifically created to boost educational outcomes of Native Hawaiians...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/09/native-hawaiian-healthcare-scholarships

 

Trump gets PUT IN HIS PLACE by SCOTUS and LOSES IT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzP0IzQYb4M

US supreme court allows Hawaii lawsuit against fossil fuel firms’ misinformation

Honolulu officials had filed a lawsuit against the companies for an alleged decades long misinformation campaign..

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/13/supreme-court-hawaii-fossil-fuel-lawsuit

 

Youth activists win ‘groundbreaking’ climate settlement

"In none of the prior cases was the defendant state government willing to budge an inch; but here the governor embraced the plaintiffs' claims and agreed to a wide-ranging court order," Gerrard said. 

The Hawaii settlement is significant because it is one of the first major cases "laser-focused on transportation", is responsible for a large portion of greenhouse gas emissions, but which "tends to get ignored", Antolini said...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/20/hawaii-youth-climate-activists-win

Honolulu officers charged in death of 16-year-old Iremamber Sykap - The Washington Post

"The evidence supports the conclusion that the defendants' use of deadly force in this case was unnecessary, unreasonable and unjustified under the law," the prosecutors said in the criminal complaint filed Tuesday...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/16/honolulu-police-shooting-death-charges/

Republicans in Oregon, Arizona, and Hawaii show post-Trump GOP is not changing - Vox

Extreme moves in Oregon, Arizona, and Hawaii point to a discouraging conclusion: The post-Trump Republican Party shows no signs of reforming.

https://www.vox.com/2021/1/26/22250374/republican-party-gop-oregon-hawaii-arizona

Hawaii's Waikiki Beach could soon be underwater because of climate change. Lawmakers are fighting to preserve it - CNN

Rep. Chris Lee is co-sponsor of a bill that aims to keep Oahu's famed beaches at Waikiki from being sent underwater in the next 15-20 years due to rising sea levels.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/22/us/hawaii-waikiki-climate-change-trnd/index.html

Officers who allegedly forced man to lick public urinal indicted on civil rights offenses

An attorney representing the officers told NBC News that they are not guilty and are confident a jury of their peers will acquit them.....
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officers-who-allegedly-forced-man-lick-public-urinal-indicted-civil-n991776

Supreme Court rejects Hawaii B&B that refused to serve lesbian couple - NBC News

The justices declined to hear a challenge to a lower court ruling that found the B&B owner violated a state anti-discrimination law by turning away the couple...
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/supreme-court-rejects-hawaii-b-b-refused-serve-lesbian-couple-n984376

‘Historic’ storm hurls huge waves and 191-mph winds at Hawaii; rare snow hits Maui - The Washington Post

An extremely powerful winter storm is pulling away from Hawaii after unleashing damaging winds, massive waves, coastal flooding and snow in unusual places. The storm, which the National Weather Service office in Honolulu described as “historic,” began pounding the islands Friday. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/02/11/historic-storm-hurls-huge-waves-mph-winds-hawaii-rare-snow-hits-maui/

Nancy Pelosi Defends Government Shutdown Vacation: Trump ‘May Not Realize This, but Hawaii Is Part of the U.S.’ - Newsweek

Nancy Pelosi was slammed by Republicans and the White House over the holiday season for her recent trip to a luxury Hawaii resort. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-hawaii-vacation-shutdown-trump-1278257

Medically assisted suicide becomes legal in Hawaii

Hawaii became the latest liberal-leaning state to legalize medically assisted suicide Thursday as the governor signed a measure into law allowing doctors to fulfill requests from terminally ill patients to prescribe life-ending medication....

https://www.apnews.com/91a066e44af64b538eaa7472bf6a9cb2/Medically-assisted-suicide-becomes-legal-in-Hawaii

Will Ajit Pai's FCC Probe into Hawaii False Alarm Expose Role Telecom Giants Played in Blocking Emergency System Upgrades? | Common Dreams

Pai's claim that lack of "safeguards" is responsible for the false alert comes as he is working to dismantle rules safeguarding the internet from corporate manipulation....
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/15/will-ajit-pais-fcc-probe-hawaii-false-alarm-expose-role-telecom-giants-played

Sen. Schatz’s new health care idea could be the Democratic Party’s future -- Vox: Exclusive

The Hawaii senator is working on a new bill that would create a Medicaid buy-in for uninsured Americans. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/22/16171160/schatz-health-care-medicaid

Hawaii Mandates Contraception Education, Conservative Christians Sue

Pregnancy-care centers by law have to tell clients about access to birth control and abortion. Pro-life groups say that tramples on their religious freedom....
http://www.thedailybeast.com/hawaii-mandates-contraception-education-conservative-christians-sue